Cleo Sham

VP of Growth

2025

Board Member

2024

Continued engagement since leading the Seed round

Angel Investor and advisor

2016

Supporting a few companies and organizations while identifying my next full-time adventure. Advising: Yassir, 28X, Zora Boards: Doorfeed, The Cheltenham Ladies' College Some angel investments: - Anthropic, Yassir, Liquid Death, Fonoa, Fyxer.ai, Astral Systems, OneHouse, Jaded, Routable.ai, Kitch (acquired by Glovo), Whisper Aero, Trella, kWh Analytics, EverydayHumans, Antevorta, Light Phone, Relentless Mobile, Xetrov LP positions: Firedrop.VC, TwentyTwoVentures, Chestnut Street Ventures (Alumni Ventures Group), SFR3 Primary investment areas: B2B SaaS, Fintech, Health, Climate, Mobility/Logistics, Consumer Functional areas: Growth, operations (biz ops and other ops functions), international expansion, building high-performance teams, culture, fundraising

Angel Investor and Advisor

2021

Seed investor and advisor. Yassir is the leading superapp in French-speaking Africa with business lines in ride-hailing, last-mile delivery, grocery, and financial services. It last raised a Series B led by BOND Capital at a valuation of $600M. Other investors include DN Capital, FJ Labs, WndrCo, and Y-Combinator. Focus topics: operations, growth, organization, and fundraising.

Venture Partner

2023 - 2024

Continue to serve on boards of portfolio companies (below)

Partner

2021 - 2023

Early-stage investing and board work across Europe: across topics such as enterprise AI, health, fintech, proptech and marketplaces - both b2b and consumer. Investments led: - TechWolf (AI-powered skills intelligence for enterprises) - Series A lead investor & board member - DeepOpinion.ai (gen AI cognitive automation platform) - Seed lead investor & board member - Loci.ai (Ai-powered enterprise 3D image search) - Seed investor - Oliva (proper mental health for employees) - Seed lead investor & board member - Cleverea (next-gen neo-insurer, consumer) - Seed lead investor & board member - Doorfeed (institutional real estate fund) - Seed lead investor & board member Other boards: - Huboo (ecmomerce fulfillment) - joined after Series B - Impala (next gen hotel booking infrastructure) - joined after Series B - Runa (b2b2c fintech fka WeGift) - joined after Series A - Jow - joined after Series A

Chief Operating Officer

2019 - 2020

COO and Board member. Joined after $40M Series B led by BOND Capital. Tenure cut short by Covid-19. Led ~200 team members across all business functions. Set up local teams in 8 countries. Hired key leaders (incl GMs, HR, Finance, Ops). Executed multiple restructurings whilst optimizing for growth and margins, against the backdrop of Covid-19 and a tight runway. Teams led: - All country PnLs and sales teams - Hired country GMs across 8 European markets. Built local sales teams - Customer Support - Marketing incl Performance, Brand, PR, Design - Partnerships - Central Operations: Sales Operations, Trust & Safety, Marketplace analytics - Strategy, Planning and Special Projects Founded in 2014, Spotahome is the first platform designed for the direct booking of accommodation for 30 days or more. With the mission of reinventing real estate making it transparent, instant and exciting; loved at last, Spotahome operates in 8 countries across the EMEA region, with a headcount of 300 people from over 30 different nationalities. Spotahome has raised over $92 million. It is backed by Kleiner Perkins Growth (Bond Capital), Passion Capital, Seaya Ventures and 14w as main investors.

Director of Operations, EMEA

2016 - 2018

Led ridesharing regional operations in the 45 countries where Uber operates in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Part of EMEA Leadership Team. Built and led central functions (built 60-person team to support our 45 markets): - Driver Growth and Funnel: driver signups, onboarding, conversion, and engagement - Marketplace: Marketplace Efficiency and Analytics, Driver and Rider Incentives, and Payments - Analytics and Automations - Risk: Safety, Fraud - Fleet Management, Vehicle Solutions - Rider: Rider product rollouts, loyalty - Strategy & Planning and Program Management - Customer Obsession - GDPR compliance readiness

Director of Operations, China

2016 - 2016

Merged with Didi Chuxing for $35B combined value (Uber China valued at at $7B after two years) in 2016. Didi Global IPO'ed at $75B valuation in 2021.

General Manager

2014 - 2016

Joined Uber in 2014 as General Manager of Guangzhou. Built the Guangzhou city business and team from the ground up to becoming Uber's largest city business globally and the first city globally to reach 1M weekly trips. Scaled geo from 3000 to >4M weekly trips ($1B run-rate) in 2 years, serving millions of riders via hundreds of thousands of partner drivers. Built a team of 60 and oversaw our business in Guangzhou, Foshan, Xiamen, Zhongshan, and Regional Operations in the South China Region. Performance consistently within top 2% or top 10% throughout tenure Fast Company 2015 - China's 100 Most Creative People in Business

Proprietary Trader

2013 - 2014

Proprietary trading -- investing BAML's own capital in public market equities Secondary responsibilities: - China business development -- acquiring regulatory approvals to trade new exotic asset classes - Build a dynamic, multi-variable data bank to identify cause and effect for historical IPO performance *** Summer Associate, Jun-Aug 2012 Ranked #1 out of 15 interns in Asia ex-Japan in Summer 2012 internship Led team as portfolio manager to win mock portfolio stock investment competition Developed Delta One basket pricing tool

Founder and CEO

2012 - 2012

Founded NinjaRooms - startup focusing on same-day hotel booking via mobile. Accepted into Hong Kong Cyberport Incubation Program; selected to participate in Penn Startup Semester Program

Business Development Director

2010 - 2011

Guanhong Lighting is a cleantech startup that manufactures and distributes energy-efficient lighting products for commercial/industrial use. They focus on Energy Management Contracts with Chinese City governments Led business strategy development and fundraising for cleantech startup focusing on Energy Management Contracts with Chinese City governments Led fundraising and discussed strategic joint ventures with multinational companies. Negotiated with multinational commercial banks